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Regurgitation vs Reflux - What's the difference?

regurgitation | reflux |

As verbs the difference between regurgitation and reflux

is that regurgitation is regurgitation while reflux is to boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser.

As a noun reflux is

the backwards flow of any fluid.

regurgitation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of regurgitating.
  • reflux

    English

    (wikipedia reflux)

    Noun

    (es)
  • the backwards flow of any fluid
  • * 1719-
  • ...after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco...
  • (chemistry) a technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period
  • (pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus
  • Derived terms

    * gastroesophageal reflux * nonreflux * reflux condenser * refluxate

    Verb

  • To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser